White House letter blasts Mueller report, says Trump has right to instruct advisers not to testify to Congress

White House letter blasts Mueller report, says Trump has right to instruct advisers not to testify to Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary chairman said Wednesday the Trump administration's refusal to provide special counsel Robert Mueller 's full Russia report to Congress presents a " constitutional crisis ," leaving the panel no choice but to move forward with a contempt vote against

Home » Congress News » Nadler: ' Constitutional crisis ' over … Trump has defied requests from House Democrats since the release of Mueller ’s report last month, and Democrats are fighting the White House on several fronts as they attempt to learn more about the report , call witnesses and

"If the Mueller report exonerates him, then why is he trying to block lawmakers from simply reading the full report? What is he trying to hide?" he added.

President Trump seems determined to engineer a constitutional crisis by refusing to comply with a standard congressional subpoena.

Trump says Mueller shouldn't testify

President Trump on Sunday said special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify on the findings of his probe into Russian election interference, suggesting it was an attempt by Democrats to renew scrutiny on the White House after the release of Mueller's long-awaited report.

Barr faces contempt vote in Congress over Mueller report . Nadler said earlier on Wednesday the Trump administration's refusal to provide special counsel Robert Mueller 's full Russia report to Congress presents a " constitutional crisis ," leaving the panel no choice but to move forward with a

President Donald Trump is invoking executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller 's unredacted report and other White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says in a statement that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler says there's a " constitutional crisis " over the Trump

If the Mueller report exonerates him, then why is he trying to block lawmakers from simply reading the full report? What is he trying to hide?

Trump moved earlier Wednesday to exert executive privilege over the full version of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

The House Judiciary Committee then voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for failing to produce an unredacted version of the report, which was released with some portions withheld last month.

The report confirmed that Mueller did not find evidence proving collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign and the Kremlin.

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